We got some automation stuff which needs us to access the subject of each mail and run scripts according to that.

Aha. No we know what you're actually trying to achieve, we can probably help a bit more.

You should have these emails sent to an email address which is delivered to a username on the Unix box. You can then use something like Procmail to pass the contents of the email to a Perl program which can parse it and take appropriate action.

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In reply to Re^5: Problem in installation of libwin32-0.191 by davorg
in thread Problem in installation of libwin32-0.191 by CGN

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